Red Cross calls for video games like GTA and Call of Duty to follow international laws

Call of Duty is one of the world's bestselling video games - and one of the most violent [EXPRESS NEWSPAPERS]

The organisation want those who kill civilians and prisoners in shooters like Call of Duty to face penalites for their offences.

Bernard Barrett, a spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross, said to the Mirror they "want to make it clear to games that there are rules in battle and that certain acts are illegal."

Shooting innocent people, torture, attacking ambulances and murdering prisoners are all areas the world-wide group want to address.

"We're not asking for censorship, we don't want to take any elements out of the games," said Barrett.

The Red Cross wants to make gamers follow international law within the games [PH]

GTA is another video games that relies heavily on violence [PH]

“We just want games to respect the basic rules of armed conflict and include penalties for gamers who commit war crimes”

Bernard Barrett

"We're not trying to make games boring or preachy.

"We just want games to respect the basic rules of armed conflict and include penalties for gamers who commit war crimes."

Both Call of Duty and the recently released Grand Theft Auto V are notorious for their violent and bloody gameplay.

Call of Duty are opposed to the move on the grounds as they want it to remain clear their video games are clearly fictitious.

Call of Duty: Ghosts executive produced Mark Rubin said: "A lot of the stuff that we show in the game has been done by someone, but it's not a representation of what [veterans] do or it's not an equivalent in any way of what they do.